Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty, Children’s Album: Daniil Trifonov on 2LP
Star pianist Daniil Trifonov burst on to the international scene winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. With this album, Trifonov returns to the music of Tchaikovsky in a beautiful selection of solo works evoking youth and family.
“We think of him”, says the celebrated pianist, “as an archetypical Romantic” and a “troubled soul. But particularly in his younger years, Tchaikovsky found joy in his close relationships and emotional comfort in his family.”
The selected pieces include the rarely-performed Sonata Op.80, the Children’s Album, the Variations Op.19/6 and Pletnev’s Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty. They reflect Tchaikovsky at his most effervescent and intimate and contain some of Trifonov’s most electrifying playing to date.
